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Sixty pillar mosque?[edit]

Isn't this supposed to be the Sixty Dome Mosque? UNESCO, Banglapedia and Department of archeology seems to have accepted Shat (or Shait, meaning sixty) Gumbad (meaning a dome) Masjid (meaning a mosue) or the Sixty Dome Mosque as the name. There are examples of sources calling it Sixty Pillar Mosque, probably on the premise that the actual number of domes is 77 and the number of pillars is 60, or Sixty Minar Mosque, which seems to be nothing bu mis-translation. These sources are few, and not as authoritative as UNESCO and the government department. Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 14:57, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Let's follow UNESCO and Banglapedia. :) --Ragib (talk) 19:34, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that name of the mosque originally is 'Shat Gumbbad masjid' which is supposed to mean 60 pillared mosque. It is often/ usually mistranslated as 'Shat Gombuj masjid', where gombuj means domes in Bangla. I learnt this from my visit and discussions with the caretakes there nearly 50 years ago. This also makes sense as apparently there are 60 pillars and not 60 domes on the mosque. I believe there are over 70 domes on the mosques (depending on whether you count only the domes on the main building (77) or also include the ones on the minerats (+4)). I don't have any published research to support this. It would be great if we could get the "government Depts" and UNESCO to research and fix it, if in fact it is a translation error rather than say UNESCO/ Govt dept. know best. It would not be the first time that the "Govt dept." or even UNESCO made an error AuM01 (talk) 23:18, 7 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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